1988 smooth Lincoln head cent

ok, all the lettering on both sides is fine and well stamped. What could have caused a smooth Lincoln head only? PMD? Grease filled die? It has no signs of filing or polishing done to it that I can tell. Can anyone tell me what this is?

 

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it could be a struck thru

 

Don't forget that this is a Zincoln. To me, the pock marks suggest environmental damage.

Chris

 

Yes, that's why I asked if it could be PMD. I have looked at strike throughs and it resembles some of them, but I'm just not sure what it is.

 

Almost like a struck thru cloth plus slight misalignment.

 

Would a strike through make it worth anything?

 

Well, at least 1 cent....kidding.

Not really. Not unless it's a major/distinctive struck thru error on a MS-69 coin. Or you find an error collector that wants it.

 

Ok. Cool. Thanks.

 

Hi,cool I like it. I have a lot of Lincoln cent irregular stuff. Like grease struck through, off center, wagonwheel rims, bignose, wheatear,...Ect... anyways I love the lincoln cent errors too..i have a lot of them. many are one of a kind. seems an endless parade of mint errors before the modern cents. keep looking and keep up the search...

 

nice railroad rim on obverse

 

misaligned die, and weak flow of metal on strike .non filling the die due to the offstrike ,not creating enough pressure. and perhaps damage after strike as mentioned

 

That's awesome you have all those!

 

Thanks. That explains a lot.

 

Yes, a parade of errors. Especially from Philly!

I'd like to see some of your one of a kind. Start a new thread and post some of them.

 

OK I will give me a few ...if I could start a thread. don't have access to post a message I guess. how do I post a message

 

I love no mint marks ,espescially the p although I do have a few

 

I will private message you. Stby....

 

This is not a railroad rim. A railroad rim refers to a partial collar strike where the collar does not deploy far enough.

 

This one is quite odd.
While I agree environmental damage has occurred at the pits I don't think that type of damage can be blamed for everything. The slightly misaligned strike would have no impact on the strength of the strike in the center of the coin. Furthermore if this were an example of a weakly struck coin the weak strike would be evident on the reverse which it isn't.
If this lack of detail were caused by PSD then the roller lines going through the flat area would have been eradicated .
Not sure what this one is but I would hang on to it till I was sure.

 

The pits were not caused by environmental damage. This is a grease strike and the pits were caused by grit stuck in the grease layer.